Vocabulary
The warning or indication of a future event.
What is foreshadowing?
On etching is spoken of as though it were something else.
What a Metaphor?
The Latin root that means "To see or look"
What is "Spec"
The repetition of initial consonant sounds.
What is Alliteration?
The central idea of the text.
What is main idea?
To restate the text in your own words.
What is paraphrasing?
A comparison using like or as.
What is a simile?
That Latin root that means "Hand"
What is "Man" or "Manus"
A grouping of two or more line in a poem that often share a pattern or rhythm and rhyme.
What is a stanza?
The conflict ends.
What is Resolution?
The three rhetorical appeals and what they appeal to.
What is
Logos: appeals to reason
Pathos: appeals to emotion
Ethos: appeals to experts/expertise
The deliberate use of exaggeration or overstatement.
What is Hyperbole?
The Latin root "Contra"
What is "against"
Poetry not written in a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.
What is free verse?
Word choice.
What is diction?
Means "after death"
Posthumous
Which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics.
What is personification?
The Latin root "scrib"
What is "to write"
A long narrative poem about the deed of god's or hero's.
What is an epic?
Friendly exchange between speakers.
What is Banter?
A statement that seems contradictory but may actually be true.
What is a Paradox?
What is Allusion?
List two words using the Latin root "dict"
What is (dictionary, dictate, diction, etc.)
A line in which both grammatical structure and the sense are complete at the end of the line
A word that takes the place of a noun.
What is a pronoun?